7. John .O. Dabiri
John Oluseun Dabiri ( Yoruba : John Olúseun Dábírí ), (born 1980) is an American biophysicist , professor of aeronautics and bioengineering, currently at the Civil & Environmental Engineering department at Stanford University.
He was formerly dean at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known for his research of the hydrodynamics of jellyfish propulsion and the design of a vertical-axis wind farm adapted from schooling fish .
He is the director of the Biological Propulsion Laboratory, which examines fluid transport with applications in aquatic locomotion, fluid dynamic energy conversion, and cardiac flows, as well as applying theoretical methods in fluid dynamics and concepts of optimal vortex formation.
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